Microsoft has opened an “urgent” external review after investigative reporting alleged that Israel’s Unit 8200 used a bespoke environment on Microsoft Azure to ingest, store and analyse vast volumes of intercepted Palestinian communications — claims that raise immediate questions about cloud...
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The case for treating ethical AI governance and human-centric design as core investment themes has moved from niche moral argument to clear strategic imperative, and the market is responding with capital, products, and policy. Recent industry forecasts and regulatory shifts show a rapidly...
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OpenAI’s latest model rollout and a disturbing medical case this month make for a cautionary, consequential moment: GPT‑5 promises sharper reasoning, faster answers, and fewer hallucinations, yet an ordinary user following AI diet guidance was hospitalized with a rare form of poisoning after...
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Headline: When the Chamber Teaches AI: What Logansport’s Workshop Means for Small Businesses
Deck: On Aug. 15, 2025 the Logansport Cass County Chamber of Commerce packed a room for an introductory AI workshop. That turnout — and the questions that followed — shows small and medium businesses are...
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Bellevue’s hospitality sector now faces a clear and measurable shift: routine, language‑heavy, and transaction‑focused roles are the most exposed to generative AI, and local workers who master hybrid human+AI workflows will retain the highest-value work while protecting wages and employment...
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Arkane Studios’ Lyon-based union has publicly joined calls for Microsoft to sever ties with the Israeli military, putting one of the games industry’s most respected studios at the center of a widening debate about cloud providers, AI, corporate responsibility, and the ethics of doing business in...
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Microsoft’s cloud business is at the center of a fraught ethical, legal and commercial storm after new reporting tied Azure to intelligence workloads used by Israel’s military, forcing a reckoning over what cloud providers can — and should — do when sovereign customers appear to repurpose...
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I asked Microsoft’s Copilot to book a dinner reservation for me so it could prove the central promise of modern AI agents: act on my behalf, not just answer questions—and it mostly worked, but with enough caveats to make clear this technology is still in its experimental phase.
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Canada’s world-class AI research and a thriving start-up ecosystem are finally producing measurable, mission-critical deployments — but the transition from lab to large-scale impact still runs up against procurement, regulation, skills and trust barriers that threaten to slow national gains...
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Microsoft’s Copilot family and developer tools have been upgraded to run OpenAI’s newly released GPT‑5 across consumer and enterprise surfaces, bringing a unified “smart” model-routing approach, deeper reasoning, and larger context windows to everyday productivity, code generation, and custom...
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Dow’s security team has quietly rewritten the playbook for a 125‑year‑old materials science giant by folding generative AI into daily operations — not as a flashy headline, but as a force multiplier that shortens investigation times, elevates junior analysts, and reshapes incident response...
Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI offering is changing the calculus for enterprises that want cutting‑edge generative AI without the legal, security, and operational headaches that have historically kept the technology in research labs. The service packages OpenAI’s top models inside Azure’s...
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Microsoft has recently announced the comprehensive integration of OpenAI's latest language model, GPT-5, across its entire product ecosystem. This strategic move aims to enhance the capabilities of Microsoft's AI-driven tools, including Copilot, Microsoft 365, GitHub, and Azure AI Foundry, by...
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A new wave of reporting is forcing Microsoft’s relationship with Israel’s security apparatus into the harshest spotlight yet, after fresh investigations alleged that the company’s Azure cloud became a backbone for storing and analyzing intercepted Palestinian phone calls at massive scale—and...
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Microsoft’s surprise deployment of GPT-5 across its vast ecosystem is sending ripples through the tech world, setting a new benchmark for artificial intelligence integration in enterprise, developer, and consumer products. With the launch now live, users leveraging Microsoft 365 Copilot, GitHub...
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Microsoft’s latest AI showcase is redefining expectations for the global Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industry, as leading firms demonstrate how robust AI solutions are catalyzing operational transformation, accelerating customer engagement, and reducing costs at scale. With companies like...
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Ascension through the competitive ranks of the Microsoft Copilot Jumpstart Partner Program marks a significant milestone not just for Reply, but for the evolving global ecosystem of artificial intelligence solutions tightly woven into Microsoft’s enterprise platforms. Reply, powered by the...
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) has upended the cloud computing landscape by announcing the integration of OpenAI’s cutting-edge AI models, disrupting Microsoft’s previously exclusive access and promising a transformative era for enterprise artificial intelligence at scale. The move, which debuted on...
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OpenAI has unveiled its latest open-weight language models, gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, marking a significant milestone since the release of GPT-2 in 2019. These models are optimized for advanced reasoning tasks and are designed to run efficiently on a range of hardware, from enterprise GPUs...
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The latest recognition of Reply as a Prioritised Tier Partner in the Microsoft Copilot Jumpstart Partner Program marks a critical milestone—not only for Reply and its Microsoft-focused subsidiaries, WM Reply and Valorem Reply—but also for the broader digital transformation landscape. This...
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